Britain now has enough offshore wind farms to provide power to 300,000 households. The UK has become the world's leading producer of offshore wind power, toppling Denmark from the top spot. The completion of the latest wind farms off the Lincolnshire coast has take the industry past 3 gigawatts capacity mark.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced the news in a video message to the British Wind Energy Association's (BWEA's) conference this week. Total wind capacity from onshore and wind farms at sea is enough to provide power for the equivalent of 1.5m homes, the British Wind Energy conference was told.
In the message he told delegates at the conference that Britain has know for a long time that it has the best wind energy resources in Europe. He added that the UK is well on its way to making full use of the wind around its shoreline. Brown anticipates that by 2020 the North Sea will be to wind power production what the Gulf of Arabia is to oil production.
The prime minister also pledged that the economic crisis wouldn't derail Government plans for cleaner and cheaper forms of energy. "You may have heard some people say that these difficulties economic times should or will reduce the Government's commitment to building a low carbon economy. They should not and will not," he said.
Within ten years offshore wind farms in Europe will be producing 40GW of power and about 50 percent of the total will be in British waters. Mr. Brown told the conference that there was a potential ￡100bn market for renewable energy which would create huge opportunities and create 160,000 jobs.
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/10/22/eawind122.xml Date: 22-10-08
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced the news in a video message to the British Wind Energy Association's (BWEA's) conference this week. Total wind capacity from onshore and wind farms at sea is enough to provide power for the equivalent of 1.5m homes, the British Wind Energy conference was told.
In the message he told delegates at the conference that Britain has know for a long time that it has the best wind energy resources in Europe. He added that the UK is well on its way to making full use of the wind around its shoreline. Brown anticipates that by 2020 the North Sea will be to wind power production what the Gulf of Arabia is to oil production.
The prime minister also pledged that the economic crisis wouldn't derail Government plans for cleaner and cheaper forms of energy. "You may have heard some people say that these difficulties economic times should or will reduce the Government's commitment to building a low carbon economy. They should not and will not," he said.
Within ten years offshore wind farms in Europe will be producing 40GW of power and about 50 percent of the total will be in British waters. Mr. Brown told the conference that there was a potential ￡100bn market for renewable energy which would create huge opportunities and create 160,000 jobs.
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/10/22/eawind122.xml Date: 22-10-08
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